Gilder is, as usual, lying, promoting the agenda of the extreme right wing, which abhors network neutrality because it hurts their corporatist and neo-fascist agenda. Plus it might let those dreaded eeeevoluuuushunists stay on the Internet.
There need not be any price controls; that's nutty idea. All that's needed is one simple rule, which, come to think of it, has been the rule since 1983, and had it not been revoked, there'd be no controversy:
An incumbent telecommunications carrier may not provide enhanced services unless its finances are accounted for separately from those of its basic telecommunications activities. Any basic telecommunications (including transmission, circuit, and packet switching) that it or an affiliated company uses in the provision of enhanced services must be provided to unaffiliated companies, on a common carrier basis, at the same price that it is provided to itself.
There. They can charge whatever they want, but just can't keep the wire to themselves, and if they retail it for less than wholesale, there's prima facie evidence for an antitrust case. |
